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No. 765,567. PATENTED JULY 19, 1904.

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APPLICATION FILED. DBO. 12. 1903.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Iietters Patent No. 765,567, dated July 19, 1904.

Application filed December 12, 1903. Serial No. 184,915. (No model.) y

To @ZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN G. DYER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Eastport, in the county of Washington and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a table which by a certain novel construction can be used either as a card or other similar table or which may be so adjusted as to form the moving part of a self-waiting dining-table. To accomplish this, I provide a base and a top, with a column removably connected to each, the top and base being capable of direct rotatable connection. With this equipment the table may be assembled in the usual manner and used as a table proper, or the column may be removed and the base and top directly joined, whereupon the base and top may be placed in the center of a dining-table to form a self-waiter therefor.

This speciiication is an exact description of one example of the invention, while the claims define the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the table assembled as such. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the table used as a self-waiter. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the top. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation of the connection between the top and column, and Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the base and lower part of the column.

10 indicates the base of the table, 11 the column, and 12 the top. These parts are formed, preferably, of wood and in the manner shown in the drawings, although the shape and other details may be varied in many respects without departing from the essential principles of my invention. The base 10 is provided with a pin 14, which projects upward from the center of the base and is adapted to be tted within a socket 11, formed in the lower end of the column 11. Said base is provided with hooks 15, hinged to the base 10 and adapted to engage eyes 16, fastened suitably to the column. The said brace-hooks 15 may be thrown back, as indicated in the left-hand portion of Fig. 6, and for holding them against rattling when in this position headed springs or screws 17 are attached to the base to be engaged by the brace-hooks, as shown. These brace hooks when engaged with the column 11 not only serve to strengthen the structure, but also serve to prevent rotation of the column on the base.

At its upper end the column 11 is provided with a pin 18, projecting above the column, and located at the side of this pin is a gib 19, the said pin being adapted to be received within a socket-piece 20, fastened to the under side of the top 12, while the gib is adapted to iit within a notch 20, formed in the socket-piece, as best shown in Fig. 5, thus preventing the socket-piece and top from turning on the column. vided with brace -hooks 21, similar to the hooks 15, before described, and adapted removably to engage with eyes 22 on the column, as shown in Fig. 1.

Now it will be observed that when the parts are assembled as in Fig. 1 a table of the usual sort is formed, this table being capable of use for any of the purposes to which small tables are usually put. The table thus formed is neat and light in construction and may be readily moved and used in any of the usual manners. To adjust the table to serve as a self-waiter, the brace-hooks 15 and 21 should be disconnected and thrown back into engagement with the base and top, respectively, after which the column should be entirely removed from the table and the pin 14: fitted within the socket-piece 20. This revolubly mounts the top directly on the base and immediately above the same, whereupon the base and top may be placed on a dining-table, as shown in Fig. 3, the top then lying but a short distance above the surface of the dining-table and serving as a self-waiter, by which the food on the table may be turned around into the convenient reach of all of the diners.

Accordingly it will be seen that my invention may be made to serve two distinct purposes and that this interchangeability in no The said top is also pro- TOO way interferes with its eiicient action in either of its two capacities.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie Within the intent of my claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a table, the combination of a base, a pin carried thereby and rising therefrom, a top, a socket-piece attached to the under side of the top, a column having a socket at its lower end adapted removably to receive the said pin, a pin at the upper end of the column adapted removably to fit in said socket-piece, the socket-piece of the top being also capable of revolubly receiving the pin of the base, and braces removably connecting the column with the base and top to prevent independent movement of said parts.

2. In a table, the combination of a base, a pin carried thereby and rising therefrom, a top, a socket-piece attached to the under side of the top, a column having a socket at its lower end to receive the said pin, a pin at the upper end of the column to fit in said socketpiece, the socket-piece of the top being also capable of receiving the pin of the base, and adapted to rotate thereon and means acting between the column and top to prevent the rotation of the latter with respect to the former.

3. In a table, the combination of a base, a pin vcarriedthereby and rising therefrom, a top, a socket-piece attached to the under side of the top, a column having a socket at its lower end to receive the said pin, a pin at the upper end of the column to fit in said socketpiece, the socket-piece of the top being also capable of receiving the pin of the base and adapted to rotate thereon, the said socket-piece having a cavity therein, and the column having a gib fitting in the cavity to prevent the rotation of the top with respect to the column.

4. In a table, the combination of'a base, a column removably mounted thereon, a top removably mounted on the column, means permitting the top to be placed in direct rotatable engagement with the base, and means for releasably holding the base, column and top incapable of independent movement when' said parts are engaged together.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANKLIN G. DYER. 

